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  1. Re:Column oriented? on Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup · · Score: 1

    Fairly certain Sybase IQ server is column orientated.

  2. Re:Quantum fibre TV on Fiber TV Install and Experience · · Score: 1

    I thought the fibre went as far as the green box on the street and from then it was copper to your house?

  3. Re:People give MySQL too much crap... on Reports from the MySQL Users Conference · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You think hacking a table with a hex editor is good?

    Think I'll stick with known good backups , glad I'm not working with your prod environment.

  4. Re:Oh no... on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale · · Score: 1

    We bought a mobile phone on ebay and apart from the ex owners contacts it also had his porn collection on it too.

  5. Re:Makes you wonder on Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D · · Score: 1

    Very common in the cd writer industry.

    My 32speed liteon drive has been running at 48speed with no problems, coasters etc.

  6. Meanwhile, back at joe six pack's trailer on Intel Drops Tejas, Xeon To Focus On Dual-Core Chips · · Score: 1

    They'll still go for the intel inside flashy ads until such point AMD catch up with some nonsense of their own..

    s/joe six pack's/mondeo man's semi/ if you are in the uk

  7. Slashdot effect with beer pitcher? on Build Your Own Wireless Beer Pitcher Monitoring System · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if everyone finishes their pitcher at the same time, could we see the slashdot effect at the bar?

  8. Re:Logical Uses on DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk · · Score: 1

    Indeed but with properly configured buffer pools (or whatever your dbms provider cares to call them) anything "hot" should be locally cached anyway.

    Just hope your developers dont decide to issue a few too many tablescans.

  9. Heat issues on Ask the Egyptian Installfest Organizers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any problems encountered with so many boxes & people in one hall in a climate I guess will be kind of toasty?

    I had enough problems last summer with 2 pc's in a room!

  10. Any optimisations? on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I still feel it chugs along a bit slowly at times...

    I use it at home on gentoo box and it feels sluggish compared with the outlook client I use at work on a machine with a much lower spec.

    I guess I'll be waiting for it to meander its way onto portage at some point.

  11. Re:The Anti-spa vacation on Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I misread this as rampaging Hamsters, must be the beer.

    But if you've read "Judge Dredd and the Cursed Earth" then its all vaguely plausible!

  12. Re:that is an opfor plane on Towards Silent Supersonic Planes · · Score: 1

    And looking here www.nato.int most of the others too.
    Plane in the original pic was just another f5, sheesh, has no one watched topgun!! Ok,Ok they used skyhawks there.

  13. Re:Who cares about the general public? on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I'll bite...
    I'd say thats the attitude that will put off the general public.
    If I hadnt got into the whole open source movement years ago in my own quiet way I think I never would as those people I meet that promote it also carry around this kind of attitiude.

    People at work associate linux with over opinionated cli users who spend more time Microsoft/apple/sun bashing (sorry , but its the truth from my perspective) and this really has to change.

    Once OSS apps get into the workplace of the big organisations would be my bet on it getting accepted. Think about someone using Mozilla or Open Office all day and they are impressed enough to them go home and try them out there. I'm sure many MS office/windows users at home only do so so they use them at work.

  14. Re:Here is what I do on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    The OP is in the uk where such fees on debit card withdrawal at the supermarket dont exist.

  15. Re:Beck's on A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never got out much then...
    The power of advertising streches far & wide!

  16. Re:Broadband won't be utilised in games for years. on The Modem Lives On · · Score: 1

    Yeah right... The fun I've had playing quake3 on american servers with lower pings than the locals....